This year has not been a good one for Canada. After battling Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), it now has to contend with Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), more commonly known as mad cow disease, after tests conducted on a eight-year-old cow from northern Alberta confirmed that it was infected with BSE at the time it was slaughtered on January 31 this year.
First discovered in the UK in 1986, the disease has caused the popularity of beef to plunge, especially after it............more
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